Today’s paradigm of battle and combat operations is completely
different from what I experienced in 1982 when I was commissioned as a
young lieutenant in the U.S. Army. At that time, the battlefield was
much simpler.
In broad strokes, there was the Soviet Union on one side and the
United States on the other. We were familiar with their tactics and
equipment, and they with ours. Both sides wore uniforms, and every now
and then we would stage war games on border control missions. http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_52/allen_west_united_states_must_understand_21st_century_combat-209937-1.html
Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was
found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the
Arizona-Mexico border. Krentz and his dog, Blue, had been missing since
that morning. They were last heard from when he radioed his brother to
say that he’d found an illegal alien on the property and was going to
offer him assistance. The man Krentz encountered that day shot and
killed him and his dog, without warning, before escaping to Mexico.